Scoanso terminal emulator for Linux - SCO

This is a discussion on Scoanso terminal emulator for Linux - SCO ; Hi all,
All is in, the title,
On a light linux PC, I want install a Scoansi terminal emulator.
Do somebobody know it ?
Telnet don't work correctly with Functions Keys.
Thank you in advance.
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Andre GEORGEL...

Have you tried setting your terminal on the Linux machine
to one of the SCO implemnations in terminfo.

Just checking in on a SuSE machine is see scoansi, scoansi-new,
and sco-ansi-old.

You shouldn't have to install anything. Just start a new shell
and set your terminal type. Then when you exit that shell you are
back to your normal Linux environment.

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

Re: Scoanso terminal emulator for Linux

How will setting TERM to scoansi cause his unspecified terminal to stop
behaving like a whatever-it-is and start behaving like a SCO console? And
without knowing what that unspecified terminal is we can't answer anyways.
xterm? linux console? gnome-terminal? kde-terminal? rxvt? Eterm? any of the
other 25 other xterm-alikes, some of which have linux console as well as
xterm modes? Except to launch into a ground-up lesson on terminals and
servers so he at least can ask a meaningful question that can be answered.

It IS possible to hammer and saw the actual linux console into behaving
almost, crudely, like scoansi through a combination of loadkeys, setfont,
stty, tput, and setting the TERM variable, but it would be a retarded thing
to do.

The most convenient answer is to use a terminal emulator that has both
scoansi and linux modes.
This is most easy from a windows desk where you have about 100 choices of
terminal emulator with all manner of different features to suit your tastes.
Putty is free but requires more manual configuration to emulate sco well.
Many commercial ones have a nice easy single menu choice that sets sco ansi
mode. But there are at least Century Software's TERM and PuTTY available on
linux that each can be made to emulate scoansi. Doing anything else and then
complaining that it doesn't work well or isn't conveient is about like
complaining to a doctor that it hurts whenever you hit your thumb with a
hammer.

The most correct answer of course, when the option is available and
practical, is to install linux termcap & terminfo on the SCO box. It would
be a good idea to also istall "xterm-color" from linux too. Then, it doesn't
matter if you telnet from the console, or gnome-terminal when it happens to
be in linux-console mode. Unfortunately though, there is no especially neat
answer for xterm & xterm-alikes in xterm mode, since they all by defult set
TERM to "xterm" and there already is an "xterm" definition on sco, and that
definition does not accurately describe the way Xfree86/xorg xterms behave.
It does accurately describe the way the sco xterms behave though so you
don't want to modify or replace it either. The cleanest answer there is,
IMO, to install the xfree86/xorg xterm definitions for xterm-color on sco
and then when telnetting from an xterm or xterm-alike on linux or freebsd,
set TERM to xterm-color. You can also modify the desktop/menu shortcut on
the linux box to add "-tn xterm-color" to the command line which shouldn't
adverseley affect the way the window works locally, and then when telnetting
to sco, TERM would already be set to xterm-color so it would be more or less
seamless.

The crude but often sufficient answer for short sessions to random sco boxes
where it's more hassle than it's worth to get either linux or xterm-color
termcap & terminfo installed, and you don't have putty or term or a windows
desk, and simply must use the linux console to telnet to a sco box that you
don't have time or inclination to fully configure to understand linux
consoles, is to just set TERM to vt100 or xterm, both of which have
definitions in SCO already that happen to be kinda almost similar enough to
a linux console that most things work. The first 4 or 5 f-keys still won't
work no matter what since no terminal definition in the stock sco
termcap/terminfo has fkeys that use the same sequences as the linux console
does for f1-f5. Several have the same sequences from f5-f12. just search for
[17~ in the sco termcap file and step through them all. Supposedly the linux
console is most like vt220, but the vt220 definition in the sco termcap file
has fkey definitions that are even further from linux than the xterm
definition. Colors and line-drawing characters work well though.

Which reminds me we haven't even mentioned the whole unicode problem yet...
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